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By Richard Nixon
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, January 20, 1969
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Nixon's first inaugural address on January 20, 1969, in the middle of the Vietnam War and deep national division. He says America has suffered from a fever of words and asks for quieter speech.